Zarrab, Sorry for not being more clear on how I went about the Listview control. I did create a new Listview class and it does inherit the properties of the .net listview class. This is why I want to override the listview's items collection with my own. I tried creating a new property called ItemsExtra and a custom ListViewItemExtraCollection to store the ListViewItemsExtra class objects. using the get{} accessor I am able to add ListViewItemsExtra to the collection fine, but the IDE doesnt automatically create the code below that it does for a normal listview item. listViewExtra.addrange( new ListViewItemsExtra.ListViewItemsExtraCollection{ this.listViewItemExtra1, this.listViewItemExtra2, this.listViewItemExtra3, etc } ) If I could override the Items property and have it add my custom ItemsExtra object or override the Add() method on the ListViewItemCollection class I may be able to successfully get the ItemExtras in the listview without haveing to redraw them with code. It also works to change the code for a normal listview item to my ItemsExtra object, but that isn't clean like I would like. I want to be able to re-use the control whenever I need it, with the ease of other controls and not have to jerry rig code. Do you have any suggestions? Lamont Bullock

Does anyone know how to override the Listview items property so that it will populate the listview with my custom ListViewItemCollection? I was able to use: ListViewItemsExtra m_ItemsExtra = new ListViewItemsExtra(); new public ListViewItemsExtra Items { get{ return m_ItemsExtra; } } this did override the property and adds my custom listview items to the collection, but they do not show up in the listview. I was hoping to overide the ListViewItemCollection and have it use my custom Item without redrawing the objects in the listview. Lamont Bullock